Colonel Robert Howard Bookplate

Colonel Robert Howard, of Castle Howard, in Co. Wicklow, NI

F15504 – Pictorial armorial
Arms – Howard impalling Brooke

Married Letitia Deborah Brooke, dau of Major Francis Brooke (c.1720-1800) of Drogheda's Horse, afterwards the 18th Light Dragoons and Hannah Prittie, sister of the 1st Lord Dunalley. Letitia’s uncle was Sir Arthur Brooke, (b. bef. 1728-1785), P.C. [Ireland)] created 1st Baronet Brooke, of Colebrooke, co. Fermanagh [Ireland] (1764) and Member of Parliament for County Fermanagh [Ireland] between 1761 and 1783 and for Maryborough [Ireland] between 1783 and 1785.
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Howard bought Castle Howard, near Avoca, in 1811 and improved it.
His brother-in-law Sir Henry Brooke [1770-1834], created 1st Baronet Brooke, of Colebrooke, co. Fermanagh [U.K.] on 7 January 1822, married Harriet Butler, daughter of Hon. John Butler, in 1792. Among his famous descendants we find his great grandson Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, KG, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO (1883 - 1963) Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the Second World War and Also Sir Henry’s great-great grandson Sir Basil Brooke, KG, CBE, MC, PC [NI], (1888 - 1973), 5th Baronet, of Colebrooke, cr. (1952) Viscount Brookeborough, of Colebrooke , co. Fermanagh [UK], Ulster Unionist politician and Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.

Castle Howard was apparently inherited by Colonel R. Howard’s nephew, son of the above, Richard Howard-Brooke (1801-1877) married on 1837 to Frances Caroline Hamilton, daughter of Hans Hamilton. Richard Howard-Brooke legally assumed the name Howard-Brooke on 1835. and lived in Castle Howard, County Wicklow, Ireland.
Sources: http://www.thepeerage.com/p18126.htm#i181253; and
The Brookeborough Papers at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
Bibliography: J. P. Neale, Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, vol. VI, 1823.

Countess of Pomfret Bookplate

Lady Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys, countess of Pomfret (1698 - 1761)
Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Caroline

F10401 - Jacobean Armorial trophy
Arms – Fermot, with Jeffreys on an escutcheon, impalling Jeffreys
Dated 1733

Lady Henrietta Louisa was the dau of John Jeffreys, 2nd Baron Jeffreys of Wem (1673 – 1703) and Lady Charlotte Herbert (circa 1676 – 1733) daughter of Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke and Henrietta Mauricette de Penancoet.

Her grandfather was the famous George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem (1645-1689), Judge and Lord Chancellor in the reign of James II (see, G. W. Keeton, Lord Chancellor Jeffreys and the Stuart Cause, 1965 & Judge Jeffreys: Towards a Reappraisal, in «Welsh Historical Review», # 265, 1962).
She married Thomas Fermor (1698 – 1753), 2nd Baron Leominster (cr. 1692, in the Peerage of England), created in 1721 Earl Pomfret, in the County of York, in the Peerage of Great Britain son of William Fermor (c 1648 — 7 Dec 1711), 1st Baron Leominster and Lady Sophia Osborne. The latter’s father, a staunch royalist, Sir William Fermor, Bart. (1621-1661) was created a baronet in 1641, by Charles I. In 1660, he became a member of the Privy Council that restored the monarchy.
She was the mother of George Fermor, 2nd Earl of Pomfret (1722 – 1785). The title became extinct with the death of George Richard William Fermor, 5th Earl of Pomfret (1824-1867).
Lady Henrietta was a distinguished diarist and letter writer.

The seat of the Fermor family was Easton Neston, in Northamptonshire.. The house came to the Hesketh family through the marriage, in 1846, of Lady Anna Maria Arabella Fermor, sister and heiress of the 5th earl of Pomfret, and great grand daughter of Henrietta Louisa, to Sir Thomas George Hesketh (1825-1872), 5th Baronet of Rufford.
However, this splendid country house former seat of the Fermor Family had its destiny sealed like many other fine houses in Britain and elsewhere, which finish up in the hands of rich American financiers or industry potentates, rich Arab oil magnates or even pop-stars.

Indeed, the house was recently sold by their great-great-grandson Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, KBE, PC, 3rd Baron Hesketh and a former Minster for Industry, to a Russian-born US retail businessman and designer, Leon Max as reported in the press.

Lady Henrietta Louisa, countess of Pomfret used two other bookplates (plus one variant) recorded in Franks’ Collection Catalogue under F10402-10404. Her husband, the 1st Earl of Pomfret also had a bookplate registered, as F10400. Their son, the 2nd Earl of Pomfret also used a bookplate – F10399 and so did his wife Lady Anna Maria Draycott – F10405.

Bibliography: see, Brian North Lee, British Royal Bookplates and Ex-Libris of Related Families, Aldershot, Scolar Press (1992), p. 6, reproducing the fine and large bookplate engraved by Samuel Wale for the Countess, p.7; British Bookplates. A Pictorial History, London, David & Charles, 1979, reproducing the other fine bookplate with two shields acccolé (#51), p. 55-56)

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Pomfret
http://www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/firp.detail.collections.aspx?collectioncode=OHC0005027

Lord Frederick Dufferin Bookplate

Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, (1826–1902), GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC

5th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (suc. 1841) 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (cr. 1888)

F2721 with the note - proof from the unfinished plate

He was invested as Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1864 as 5th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (suc. 1841) and only became Marques of Dufferin and Ava in 1888. So, this bookplate must be dated after 1864 and before 1888.
He was the son of Price Blackwood, 4th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (1794-1841) and Helen Selina Sheridan, daughter of Thomas Sheridan and Caroline Henrietta Callander.
He succeeded his father in 1841 as 5th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye in the Peerage of Ireland, and was appointed a Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria in 1849. In 1850 he was created Baron Claneboye, of Clandeboye in the County of Down, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
He married Lady Hariot Georgina Rowan-Hamilton in 1862 having taken the name Hamilton by royal license and later the name of Temple.
A distinguished diplomat he was Ambassador to St Petersburg, 1879-81, Ambassador to Constantinople and Cairo, 1881-84, Ambassador to Italy (1888-1891) and to France (1891-1896). He also held the offices of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, under-Secretary of State for War, Governor-General of Canada and Vice-Roy of India
After returning from France, Lord Dufferin became President of the Royal Geographical Society, and Rector of the University of Edinburgh and the University of St Andrews.
Published: A Yacht Voyage. Letters from High Latitudes; Being Some Account Of A Voyage, In 1856, In The Schooner Yacht "Foam", To Iceland, Jan Mayen, And Spitzbergen. By Lord Dufferin. Governor General Of The Dominion Of Canada. Toronto: Adam, Stevenson, and Co., 1873
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood%2C_1st_Marquess_of_Dufferin_and_Ava
See, also the Dufferin Papers